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| The BBC is to publish the salaries and expenses of its top 100 executives and decision-makers, its director general Mark Thompson will announce later. | The BBC is to publish the salaries and expenses of its top 100 executives and decision-makers, its director general Mark Thompson will announce later. |
| Salaries and detailed expenses will be published alongside named executives later this year. The total spend for on-air talent will also be revealed. | Salaries and detailed expenses will be published alongside named executives later this year. The total spend for on-air talent will also be revealed. |
| In addition, the expenses of some top executives will be released on Thursday after a Freedom of Information request. | In addition, the expenses of some top executives will be released on Thursday after a Freedom of Information request. |
| The BBC already publishes the pay details of its executive board. | The BBC already publishes the pay details of its executive board. |
| The pay and expenses of the corporation's governing body, the BBC Trust, are also available to the public. | |
| A report in the Times on Thursday suggested the BBC was "refusing to reveal how much is spent on hospitality and gifts for its best-paid celebrities". | |
| However, in a speech to the Chartered Institute of Public Finances and Accountancy's annual conference in Manchester later, Mr Thompson is expected to announce that a hospitality and gifts register will be published. | |
| I firmly believe that these changes will help us maintain trust with the licence fee payer and will ensure the BBC continues to lead the way in transparency Mark Thompson | |
| "Public expectations about openness, trustworthiness and every kind of value for money are becoming more trenchant and insistent," he will say. | |
| BBC correspondent Torin Douglas said there was "a great appetite" for this material in the wake of the MPs' expenses scandal. | |
| Privacy rights will prevent some claims, such as money spent on lunches to recruit people who did not go on to join the BBC, from being published. | |
| But Mr Thompson was keen that as much information as possible was published, our correspondent added. | |
| In an email to staff on Thursday, Mr Thompson said that the BBC would also be "answering a number of existing Freedom of Information requests in relation to expenses and salaries". | |
| That included "line-by-line" expenses for executive directors for the past five years and the names of the top 50 highest earners in BBC management "along with their salaries published in £30,000 brackets". | |
| "I don't underestimate the extent to which this may feel uncomfortable for individuals," Mr Thompson said in the email. | |
| "However, I firmly believe that these changes will help us maintain trust with the licence fee payer and will ensure the BBC continues to lead the way in transparency and disclosure." |